This thing is just beyond description. I can see a generation being blasted into bitterness.

Youngsters growing up, they'll never forget this, they'll never forget the homes that have lost. The people have lost.

I just can't find words to describe the agony of this week.

Morning, August the 15th, the death toll mounted and large sections of

Belfast lay in ruins. The feeling grew in the Protestant areas that they've been fighting a large well-armed IRA brigade.

Dawn over Belmont today showed a grim scene.

Buildings scarred by fire, thousands of palms worth of damage caused, and of course the tragic loss of life.

It's been a night of shame for Belfast, one that will live on in the memories of its people for a very long time. August 1969, extreme violence and fears of a re-emerging IRA

have put Northern Ireland on a knife edge.

The Cabinet Security Committee met during the night and a full Cabinet meeting is expected later today.

There are certain to be consultations with the British government.

The likeliest move is to bring troops into Belfast in the hope of avoiding further classes between routers and police.

The British Army deployed the previous day in London Dairy is yet to be seen in Belfast. But on the Protestant

Shankle Road, the Shankle Defence Association, led by extremist John Mckeg,

has been taking matters into its own hands.

We have always advocated that we would defend our areas against incursions by any rebel

attackers. The Scarmon tribunal sat soon after the August 1969 violence and recorded testimonies from key witnesses.

In McKeeke's testimony, his intentions are made clear.

To shake the Storm-on Government into action that should have been taken many, many months previous.

My mom grew up on the Shankle Road, and it's here I'm meeting historian Simon Prince.

McKeigan is testimony to the Scarmon Tribunal says that he's a very small part of the people.

He says the people have arisen to shake the Stormont government into doing what they should

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